Conditional anomaly detection methods for patient-management alert systems

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2605.10847v1
• Date: Mon, 11 May 2026 16:58:48 GMT
• Title: Conditional anomaly detection methods for patient-management alert systems
• Abstract summary: A recently proposed conditional anomaly detection framework extends anomaly detection to identifying anomalous patterns on a subset of attributes in the data.<n>The work presented in this paper focuses on instance-based methods for detecting conditional anomalies.<n>We show the benefits of the instance-based methods on two real-world detection problems.
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• Abstract: Anomaly detection methods can be very useful in identifying unusual or interesting patterns in data. A recently proposed conditional anomaly detection framework extends anomaly detection to the problem of identifying anomalous patterns on a subset of attributes in the data. The anomaly always depends (is conditioned) on the value of remaining attributes. The work presented in this paper focuses on instance-based methods for detecting conditional anomalies. The methods rely on the distance metric to identify examples in the dataset that are most critical for detecting the anomaly. We investigate various metrics and metric learning methods to optimize the performance of the instance-based anomaly detection methods. We show the benefits of the instance-based methods on two real-world detection problems: detection of unusual admission decisions for patients with the community-acquired pneumonia and detection of unusual orders of an HPF4 test that is used to confirm Heparin induced thrombocytopenia - a life-threatening condition caused by the Heparin therapy.

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